>Tuapse refinery halted oil processing and output following a fire after drone attack on Jan. 25 and remained shut for about 3 months resuming operations late in April. The Tuapse plant’s annual capacity is 12 million metric tons
So *one* drone strike from Ukraine in January prevented the refining of 3 *million* tons of crude oil, or approximately $1.8bn worth of oil products.
So how many refineries do they have left that haven’t been attacked or made inoperable?
A source cited in the article says that the LPG processing unit was hit, not the crude oil distillation unit. Their reasoning for this is the lack of heavy black smoke produced by burning crude.
I was curious, so I did some googling…
LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) is what is sometimes called LP gas. (Amazing, right? /s).
LPG is basically just a mix of hydrocarbon gasses that can easily be liquified and stored in a bottle at ambient temperatures and modest pressure. Chemically, it usually contains a mix of (mostly) propane and butane, plus a few other gases.
LPG is very different from LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas), which has to be kept at very low temperatures for storage and transport. In fact, even “normal” natural gas has the LPG gasses removed from it so that they don’t turn to liquid in the pipelines and such.
The other main source of LPG is as a byproduct of refining crude oil, as in this case.
It seems like in the US the term “LP gas” used to be very common, but now everyone just says “propane”. When you buy a bottle of “propane”, say for a gas grill, what you are getting is LP gas. It *might* be mostly propane, or it might not. Depends on when and where you buy it.
Anyway, if the article is accurate and the LPG unit was hit, it sounds like it was not as juicy a target as the crude distillation unit. Guess we’ll have to wait and see.
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Halt them all.
>Tuapse refinery halted oil processing and output following a fire after drone attack on Jan. 25 and remained shut for about 3 months resuming operations late in April. The Tuapse plant’s annual capacity is 12 million metric tons
So *one* drone strike from Ukraine in January prevented the refining of 3 *million* tons of crude oil, or approximately $1.8bn worth of oil products.
So how many refineries do they have left that haven’t been attacked or made inoperable?
A source cited in the article says that the LPG processing unit was hit, not the crude oil distillation unit. Their reasoning for this is the lack of heavy black smoke produced by burning crude.
I was curious, so I did some googling…
LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) is what is sometimes called LP gas. (Amazing, right? /s).
LPG is basically just a mix of hydrocarbon gasses that can easily be liquified and stored in a bottle at ambient temperatures and modest pressure. Chemically, it usually contains a mix of (mostly) propane and butane, plus a few other gases.
LPG is very different from LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas), which has to be kept at very low temperatures for storage and transport. In fact, even “normal” natural gas has the LPG gasses removed from it so that they don’t turn to liquid in the pipelines and such.
The other main source of LPG is as a byproduct of refining crude oil, as in this case.
It seems like in the US the term “LP gas” used to be very common, but now everyone just says “propane”. When you buy a bottle of “propane”, say for a gas grill, what you are getting is LP gas. It *might* be mostly propane, or it might not. Depends on when and where you buy it.
Anyway, if the article is accurate and the LPG unit was hit, it sounds like it was not as juicy a target as the crude distillation unit. Guess we’ll have to wait and see.